11/28/12 Asbury Park, NJ Randy Tashman of Brielle, owner of King of All Cars LLC, talks about the damage, caused by Sandy, to his business in Asbury Park Wednesday November 28.

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The best news for 2012 is that we are still here, the Mayan apocalyptic prophesy failing to live up to its grim Dec. 21 ending. But at moments, it seemed like the world was barely hanging on.

When a freak and deadly weather event with a benign-sounding name finished sweeping over the Jersey Shore, the landscape and many lives had been radically changed. The good news from superstorm Sandy: remarkably few lives were lost in Monmouth and Ocean counties, thanks to an epic evacuation, the heroism of many people and some incredible luck.